User talk:Paraphelion

Welcome!

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Cleanup

You're right, it's usually a good idea to have someone else remove the tag. (Perhaps best, by the person, who placed it in the first place.) I'll do some minor edits, and fixes before removing it. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 10:53, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Formatting

Please note the following:

You should mention the article title in bold so code: '''Martyn Bennett''' instead of [[Martyn Bennett]].
Also Grit probably doesn't link to his music, so link to [[Grit (album)]] or [[Grit (single)]] by using a pipe "|" like this [[Grit (album)|<alternative name>]] you can name a link what you want but still link to the correct article.
Use the preview button to make sure all formatting works.

Have fun editing. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 11:15, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Taking stuff off your talk page

As previous discussions can be useful in the future, it's wikipedia policy to not delete talk pages. Instead create a link like User talk:Paraphelion/Archive 1 or something and archive topics by copy/pasting them into the new page. This way your talk page doesn't get cluttered, but it leaves earlier conversation available to be looked up. Hope I've been helpful. :) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 22:07, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

spam and such

Hey, it turns out that the bot does represent a certain fraction of Wikipedia's server load and Wikipedia bot owners have been in discussion this week with the system administrators to come up with a system that works for everyone. I've personally chosen not to use any bot until some of the server problems can be resolved, as per the informal request. I just thought that maybe you'd like to know about the update that occurred after my comment where I told you there was no delay (I had not received an update from a sys admin in some time). As for multi-licensing, it is not only useful for articles with only one user editing them. It is always useful for any article revision created just by multi-licensors (of which there should be many), but even if there are some by non-multi-licensors, portions of the article can still be useful. This is ok for situations like sharing with WikiTravel where they would not want the entire article anyway, but only a summary or small portions of them for usage in their travel brochures. Nothing needs to be done with any sort of disclaimer. If someone wants to multi-license, it is up to them to do all of the work, relieving the multi-licensor from having to do any work other than grant permission. Essentially you just agree that your personal copyrighted contributions can be used in CC-by-sa projects in addition to GFDL projects. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 14:12, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Redirect question

Hi! Just click on the part at the top of the page that the redirect takes you to, the one that says "redirected from (article)." It'll take you directly to the redirect itself. - Lucky 6.9 20:18, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

amending categories

Hey, I saw that you edited the Martyn Bennett article. What does the change you made do? Thanks --Paraphelion 03:52, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It's just a matter of sorting Category entries in alphabetical order by surname. Bornintheguz 14:56, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

ethnic sterotypes

Hiya.. I don't really have any strong feelings about that List of ethnic stereotypes article. It's a pretty crappy article, and when I was implementing the VfD vote, there was definitely a majority in favour of deletion. But it was not such a strong one that I felt comfortable calling it consensus and deleting - maybe 60/40 in favour. Anyway, I trust those who wanted to keep and cleanup will do something with it. Meanwhile, I encourage you to have at it and rip out the racial slurs, leaving it as an actual list of ethnic stereotypes.

Given the closeness of the vote, and the number of people voting Keep who said it needed cleaning up, it should probably be relisted in a couple of months if nothing good is done with it. --Stormie 07:12, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

Anon block

Searching the block log (Special:Log/block) for my username ([1]), I find:

20:32, 5 Jan 2005 Hyacinth blocked "User:155.84.57.253" with an expiry time of (vandalism to List of sexual slurs ([2]))

Hyacinth 22:29, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I myself was only aware of the existance of the log and had to look it up.

As you can see, I did not have the will to "police" the page beyond the above action, and I created the page. Hyacinth 03:15, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Peer review

No, I guess peer review wasn't the right place, and I see from Stormie above that it's not a good time to VfD. Too bad. I don't really see the point of Cleanup, either, since the problem is the page is always going to deteriorate again real fast, even if you do temporarily make it a little "nicer". I sure wouldn't wish on anybody the job of trying to permanently nurse such a misconceived article. Best wishes, Bishonen, tall, blond, attractive, sexy, neutral in international conflicts, depressed, high suicide rate, busy making depressing, confusing, or overly maudlin movies/films, alcoholic, promiscuous, adulterous, just going to have me some tasteless food and tasteless weak beer right now. 23:09, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)